Guitar pyrotechnics
Over the years musicians have found new ways to innovate guitar playing, whether it be through unique techniques or use of accessories, in the hands of these musicians the guitar has been manipulated to create a range of effects and sounds that blazed a trail in guitar playing worldwide. So i've done a bit of research and dug a trove of old treasures of guitar playing from the old slide guitar masters, to the wah-pedal, the talk-box and everything in between. This is a list for the players. |
| 1 | #1 - Slide Guitar Serpents
Slide Guitar
Duane Allman - Statesboro Blues
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas
Derek Trucks Band - Sahab Terri Bandi
Rory Gallagher - Wanted Blues
Elmore James - Dust My Broom
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd) - One of these Days
Johnny Winter - Highway 61 revisited |
| 2 | #2 - Talk-box Titans
Talk Box
Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way, numerous songs from Framptom Comes Alive!
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
David Gilmour - PIgs (3 different ones)
Jeff Beck - She's a Woman
Dean Parks (Steely Dan) - Haitian Divorce
Adam Jones (Tool) – Jambi |
| 3 | #3 - E-bowfingers
E-Bow
Steve Hackett (Genesis) - Carpet Crawlers
Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) - Daphne Descends, Soma, Stand Inside Your Love
Ed O'Brien (Radiohead) - Nude, JIgsaw Falling into Place
Wata (Boris) - Kuruimizu, numerous other songs
Sigur Ros (George Holm, Jonsi) - E-bow, Svefn-g-englar, many other songs
Munaf Rayani (Explosions in the Sky) - The Moon is Down
Ben Sharp (Cloudkicker) - The Discovery
Peter Buck (R.E.M) - E-bow the letter |
| 4 | #4 - Wah-wah pedal cry babies
Wah-pedal
Jimi Hendrix - Burning of the midnight lamp, Voodoo Child
Isaac Hayes - Shaft theme
Chris Squire (Yes) - The Fish
Eric Clapton (Cream) - Tales of Brave Ulysses, White Room
Vernon Reid (Living Colour) - Cult of Personality
Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains) - Man in the Box, Rain When I Die
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Telephone Song
Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic) - Maggot Brain
Tom Morello (RATM) - Bulls on Parade |
| 5 | #5 - Pinch Harmonic Harbingers of Hades
Pinch Harmonics
Kim Thayil (Soundgarde) - Limo Wreck
Luc Lemay (Gorguts) - Faceless Ones
Chuck Schuldiner (Death) - Scavenger of Human Sorrow, Painkiller
Dimebag Darrell (Pantera) - Cemetary Gates, Floods
Muhammed Suicmez (Necrophagist) - To Breathe In A Casket
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top) - La Grange
Joe Duplantier (Gojira) |
| 6 | #6 - Bass harmonic beasts
Bass Harmonics
John Myung (Dream Theater) - Lifting Shadows Off A Dream
Sean Malone (Cynic) - Textures
Justin Chancellor (Tool) - Disposition
Jaco Pastorius (Joni Mitchell) - Coyote, Black Crow
Mark Michell (Scale The Summit) - Atlas Novus
Victor Wooten - U Can't Hold No Groove
Geddy Lee (Rush) - Different Strings |
| 7 | #7 - Sweep-picking shredders
Mighty Masturbators
John Petrucci (Dream Theater) - all his shit
Jeff Loomis (Nevermore) - Psalm Of Lydia
Jason Becker - Serrana
Guthrie Govan - Rhode Island Shred
Rusty Cooley - Under the Influence
Merle Travis
Yngwie Malmsteen
Paul Waggoner |
| 8 | #8 - Percussive buskers
Percussive
Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) - numerous songs
John Butler - Ocean
Jon Gomm - Passionflower
Andy McKee- Drifting
Ben Harper - numerous songs |
| 9 | #9 - Thereminions
Theremin
Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead) - How to Dissapear Completely, The National Anthem
Rene Rutten (The Gathering) - Rescue Me
Chris Cornell - Follow My Way
Efrum Menuck and Mike Moya (Godspeed! You Black Emperor) - numerous songs
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) - Whole Lotta Love, No Quarter (live version)
Kurt Ballou (Converge) - Jane Doe
Joey Santiago (Pixies) - Velouria |
| 10 | #10 - Experimental Extra-terrestrials
Experimental, crazy
Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
Allan Holdsworth
Buckethead
That One Guy (aka Mike Silverman)
Fredrik Thordendaal (Meshuggah)
Derek Bailey
Adrian Belew (King Crimson) |
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